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2.3.0 ‘Beta’ released

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New Features

  • New HTML-based documentation, with updated content
  • New logo and interface theme
  • Bundle documentation with Comet Server (Windows: include link in Start Menu, prompt to open after completing installer)
  • Allow setting custom image for pinned Start Menu tiles on Windows 8.1 / Windows 10

Enhancements

  • Improve backup performance approximately 2x (WARNING: newly backed-up data cannot be restored with older versions of Comet Backup!)
  • Improve restore performance of newly backed-up data (approximately 35%)
  • Improve performance of measuring sizes of large storage vaults
  • Improve first page load performance in Comet Server
  • Immediately replicate newly created buckets, instead of deferring until first content write
  • Zip generated Windows installer, to avoid warning message in Internet Explorer

Bug Fixes

  • Fix an issue loading the Comet Server homepage in certain browser versions
  • Fix an issue with Comet Backup appearing to make no progress when trying to restore a zero-byte files
  • Fix an issue with Comet Server crashing if the Authentication Role was not enabled
  • Fix an issue with not reporting certain classes of compression errors
  • Fix an issue where Storage Vault sizes could be off by a 2x factor
  • Fix an issue with displaying replication status on an Authentication Role server without the Storage Role enabled
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with mouse cursors on the homepage graphs
  • Fix a cosmetic issue with progress ticker refresh speeds